The right learns a lesson, eventually

More griping about Miers in the Post. It's sad, really. It's taken the right so long to figure out what the rest of us had years ago - this administration are politically opportunistic, not ideological. They know there're lots of you guys out there chomping at the bit to change this country, so they promise you all sorts of goodies, like a court packed with people who believe the constitution is dead and zygotes have souls. But the thing is, they'll never deliver that. It would just cost too much, and they want to keep getting elected. It isn't just that they fear the business funding backlash should they go too far in the cultural conservative way - it's that they know you'll keep working for them as long as there's something to win. Check this out:

If there has been a unifying cause in American conservatism over the past three decades, it has been a passionate desire to change the Supreme Court. When there were arguments over tax cuts and deficits, when libertarians clashed with religious conservatives, when disputes over foreign policy erupted, reshaping the judiciary bound the movement together.

The point is that if they give you the court, you won't have anything to be excited about, and they can't figure out how to build a party around anything else. You saw the complacency among liberals before the last couple years; Karl Rove knows you'd be the same way if you won this.